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Lynda Wolters
Author and Speaker
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The Placeholder
a Novel
"An unexpectedly tender story with the panache and steaminess of a romance." ~ Kirkus Reviews
A Thelma and Louise-style
Eat, Pray, Love adventure
with a Me Before You twist
The Placeholder, an unconventional, unforgettable, un-put-downable story
of loss and love
Honorable Mention in both the 2022 Paris and Hollywood Book Festivals
Best First Book ~ Indie Reader Discovery Awards 2023
Everyone needs a wingwoman she can count on as she searches for Mr. Right, or to hold her hand as she lays dying.
Middle-aged attorney Serenade Kincaid has it all: great job, loving husband, adorable stepdaughters–until her infertility issues shatter everything. Now living in a seedy motel, Sera lily-pads from man-to-man looking for a semi-decent-not-a-mass-murderer-please-just-spend-time-with-me port in the storm. A total fail.
Carolyn, brash, snarky, and Sera’s boss, decides, “You need a booty-call.” Enter, novel-worthy, self-proclaimed bad boyfriend, Zac. Sera sets the relationship boundaries and their tryst begins; in the stairwell, in his truck, on her desk.
Life is good until it’s not, and Sera, Zac, and Carolyn wind up entangled in a threesome of lies, deceit, and death. The Placeholder, an unforgettable, unexpected story of loss and love.
Also by Lynda Wolters:
The Voices Series - a series of sameness
“These books are designed to open your eyes to see that all people are the same
regardless of their differences.” ~ Lynda Wolters
Voices of LGBTQ+ Now Available
released august 2020
The second in the Voices series, Voices of LGBTQ+ is a collection of stories and input from those in the LGBTQ community. It covers life from their perspective including the ups and downs and pitfalls of living in a culture where being LGBTQ is still thought of as a choice and where many basic civil and human rights are not defined for them to protect them against discrimination.
Order Voices of Cancer today
This book is a culmination of different perspectives, personalities and insights from those whose cancer journeys are both similar and completely different than mine. I have talked with those who were diagnosed as stage 1 through stage 4. I have spent time with people in the healthcare field, questioning their perception of cancer and its ripple effect, and I have tried to cover some of the most difficult subjects including, “What to say to someone with cancer,” and “How to actually help a cancer patient,” as well as, “Stop being so positive, we know how sick we are” and “Letting go when it is time.”
“Your words have been a beacon of truth and light for me to ponder and to determine if my own path is the way I want to live. Thank you for taking me and so many others next to you on your journey. You really have touched my heart and helped light up my own path.” ~ R. Blake
Lynda Wolters
Lynda was born and raised in a tiny farming community of 400 in northern Idaho. She worked on the family farm with her first job being picking rocks out of the fields. When she could “legally” drive, she moved up in the farming world to driving a grain truck and combine during harvest. After high school, she traveled to New York for a few months before moving to Las Vegas where she went on with her schooling.
She moved back home to Idaho to raise her three sons and continues to reside there with her husband.
Lynda has worked in the legal field for 30+ years and enjoys ballroom and swing dancing, horseback riding, kayaking, and river rafting. She has a heart for people and enjoys regularly volunteering. She spends the bulk of her free time writing.
Lynda’s Cancer Journey
Lynda was diagnosed with stage 4 Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL) in August 2016. She was told the average life expectancy was 5 years with a 20 month average “remission” time if remission could be reached.
After commuting 3,600 miles round trip from Boise, Idaho to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas for eight months, followed by four months of week-long, in-patient R Hyper-CVAD chemotherapy, and two years of every-other-month maintenance treatment Lynda’s cancer is currently “dormant” (She chooses to use the word dormant as “remission” often gets confused with “cure.”)
Lynda continues to work in a law firm and as an author/writer and speaker.
Doing the best I can to get through chemo with a smile, and some googley eyes.
Read Comments from my Caring Bridge journal.
L. Crossley
You help me learn to get beyond the brain noise, clutter, and junk. To try to be present in the moment I find myself.
B. Hatch
You bring a reality to our lives and how precious life is.
S. Gross
Thank you for teaching us all how to process, lean in, and pull strength from the depths of our grievances into the hope of future Grace.
C. Blackhurst
After reading this, I am going to make more of an effort to reach out to people I don't know. The people I randomly meet throughout my day.
